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Side 28
... habits and polished taste , the patron of the fine arts in a degree transcending all example of his own or the previous age , and as a man of general literature so much beyond his contemporaries , except Cicero , that he looked down ...
... habits and polished taste , the patron of the fine arts in a degree transcending all example of his own or the previous age , and as a man of general literature so much beyond his contemporaries , except Cicero , that he looked down ...
Side 52
... habit of say- ing , Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? ' And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
... habit of say- ing , Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? ' And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
Side 52
... habit of say- ing , Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? ' And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
... habit of say- ing , Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? ' And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
Side 57
... habits of his private life , his tastes , and personal peculiarities . In person , he was tall , fair , and of limbs distin- guished for their elegant proportions and gracility . His eyes were black and piercing . These circumstances ...
... habits of his private life , his tastes , and personal peculiarities . In person , he was tall , fair , and of limbs distin- guished for their elegant proportions and gracility . His eyes were black and piercing . These circumstances ...
Side 52
... habit of say- ing , Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? ' And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
... habit of say- ing , Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? ' And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
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Alexander Alexander Severus amongst ancient anecdotes army assassination Augustus Aurelian barbarians body Cæsar Caligula Caracalla Carus Cassius character Christian Cicero circumstances civic civil Commodus condition death Decius declension defeated Dioclesian discipline doubt doubtless effect Emilianus enemy express eyes fact father favor fear frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul Goths grandeur habits Hadrian hand happened historians honors human nature imperial instance interest Julius Julius Cæsar king legions less luxury Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximin means memorable mighty military mode monarchy moral mother murder necessity Nero never NOTE notice Numerian occasion original palace party perhaps Persian Philip the Arab philosopher popular prætorian prince Probus prosperity provinces purpose rank reason reign remarkable republic republican revolution rival Roman emperor Roman empire Rome sacred seems senate sense Severus soldier spirit succession Suetonius supposed Sylla thousand throne tion troops true vast victory whilst whole writer
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Side 242 - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
Side 19 - Czesarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, for example, the night before he was assassinated, he dreamt at intervals that he was soarIng above the clouds on wings, and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove.
Side 54 - Men like Mark Antony, with minds of chaotic composition — light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by unsymmetrical arrangement, the angelic in close neighborhood with the brutal — are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart.